Frankly, I respect all the effort you put into posting news on the Pennsylvania forum in DU, and I'm hurt that you wrote that. No one has every called me either stupid or hateful. And I've disagreed often enough with posters on DU without calling any of them stupid or hateful.
Clearly Corbett was playing the PR/propaganda game to have a presser with the puppies. I think Corbett is well on his way to being the worst governor Pennsylvania has ever had. Still, I didn't call him a Nazi, but provided a link stating it was part of Hitler's propaganda to depict himself as a dog lover. Hitler was masterful at propaganda. I know nothing about Glenn Beck or what he has to say about Nazis. I have never listened to or watched him or read anything written by him.
My reference was to pets/puppies as political propaganda. I am a lifelong dog lover and owner. This pet PR is solely to influence Corbett's public approval ratings. If he gave a damn about dogs, why didn't he use the occasion to speak out against Pennsylvania's cruel and inhumane puppy mills?
I understand his family is attached to the specific breed, but there IS an airedale rescue group available to people in Pennsylvania. What a lovely example it would have been for the governor to have adopted a couple of dogs from that group. (I have a friend who just adopted an airedale through a rescue group in California.)
http://www.airedale911.org/Or, god forbid, he could have used the occasion to voice his support for Ed Rendell's push to save stray dogs. Tragic enough when stray dogs are caught and euthanized if not quickly adopted. Now, an increasing number of municipal shelters will no longer accept strays - so these animals will die slow deaths, starving and suffering. In fact, Corbett could have done all 3 of those things.
HARRISBURG – As he leaves office, Gov. Rendell is already focused on a pet cause he hopes will help ease two problems at once: He wants to give pooches to prisoners. The goal is to make a dent in the state’s burgeoning stray-animal crisis, while giving selected inmates responsibility for dogs – a pairing that has worked well in prisons that have tried it.
Rendell told The Inquirer that he wanted to create a network of animal shelters at state prisons to respond to the rising number of shelters that no longer accept stray dogs and cats. The stray-animal crisis in Pennsylvania cropped up last summer when the Delaware County SPCA announced it would no longer accept strays after July 2011.
As of Jan. 1, it stopped accepting strays from 20 municipalities that do not help defray the cost. Now, other facilities in the state are taking similar steps, and some shelters are considering barring strays.
“These dogs are going to die horrible deaths on the street,” said Tom Hickey, a member of Rendell’s Dog Law Advisory Board, who met with the governor on the shelter issue last month.
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